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Tag: History

Why doesn’t the west care about the Middle East’s Christians?

For a conflict so often compared to a crusade, the Iraq War has been devastating for Christians in the Middle … More

Arabs, Christianity, History, Islam, Palestine, Religion, Reviews

No one’s matter

NO ONE’S MATTER a play by Saif Diaan Persian-Hebrew translation by Samuel Thrope. Directed by Li Lorian   “When I … More

History, Persian, Translation

Magic bowls of antiquity

Sometime around 650 AD, Mahdukh, daughter of Newandukh, had a headache. I first read about Mahdukh’s migraines – excruciating and … More

Art, Ethics, Hebrew, History, Iraq, Judaism, Religion

What fractured Jerusalem needs now

In the summer of 2014 Jerusalem broke apart, again. In those few bloody months, which began in April with the … More

Arabs, History, israel, Jews, Palestine, Reviews

A tantalising find from the Jews of medieval Afghanistan

In 1946, the French philologist André Dupont-Sommer published the first Jewish tombstone inscription from Firozkoh in Afghanistan. Dated between the … More

Afghanistan, History, Iran, Judaism, Persian, Religion

Many admirers, few disciples

The life and legacy of Rav Kook

History, israel, Judaism, Reviews

God wanted peace, so Carter chimed in

The most impressive fact about the 1979 Camp David Accords

History, israel, Reviews

Daniel Gordis in Purgatory

In portraying a saint-like Begin, Gordis is attempting to silence contemporary critics of today’s Likud-led government

History, israel, Judaism, Reviews

A guide for the perplexed

A modern-day tale of love and suspense

History, Islam, Judaism, Reviews

The spy who loved

A Jew, a woman and Churchill’s favorite spy: Christine Granville, flesh-and-blood hero

History, Judaism, Reviews

Doing justice to Josephus

For most of Jewish history, Flavius Josephus was the odd man out

History, Judaism, Religion, Reviews

Howard Zinn

At age 86, Howard Zinn destroyed history

History, Judaism, Reviews
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